Josefu - 8:59 pm on Mar 30, 2007 (gmt 0)

I can understand that the same laws assuring the safety of our everyday lives be ported to (applicable to) the web, but a 'web code of conduct'? Not.

The days of inner-culture 'morals' are over, especially where the wide-reaching web is concerned: acceptable web conduct should be a civility based on rationality (examination of motives, tone, fact, fiction, obvious flame, etc)... but this exists already! By means of a natural consensus, the web will govern (and protect) itself - and shape its own communities.

If 'web conduct' reaches beyond the web to physically endanger any party, our 'physical safety' laws are already there to help.

Predetermined 'web laws' enforced by (no doubt many self-appointed) 'policemen' will be a wrench in the works - pre-formatting is a form of sterilising - or sterility - for rational thought. I would not be surprised if one day such laws were used (abused) to this very end.

[edited by: Josefu at 9:00 pm (utc) on Mar. 30, 2007]